The Retirement Gamble

Retirement…Will You Be ($$) Ready ?

The Wall St Journal Oct 3 2010
In a development all but unnoticed outside the industry, life-insurance companies gradually have shifted away from their broad historical base of middle-class households.
Instead, statistics show, an increasing portion of insurers’ business consists of selling large policies to wealthier Americans, often as part of complex estate-tax plans.

The shift means that a growing proportion of the tax benefits of life insurance goes to the well-off, not to the middle class that once was the industry’s backbone.